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Microsoft says it warned Bill Gates about flirtatious emails in 2008

The company executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee

LinkedIn is pulling out of China, though Microsoft remains

While Microsoft chases growth for Bing, Teams and its cloud service, Azure, from China, its Windows operating system still dominates in the country with stringent regulations

After LinkedIn's exit from China, will more companies follow suit?

Analysts said that as Beijing continues to tighten its grip over the private sector including the tech companies, there could be a few more companies that decide to slash down their operations

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Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China amid censorship rules

Microsoft is shutting down its LinkedIn service in China later this year after censorship rules were tightened by Beijing.

Microsoft Windows store is now open to third-party app stores

The news comes months after Microsoft announced some major changes to the Microsoft Store

Microsoft to allow Epic Games, Amazon storefronts on its app store

Microsoft Corp said it will allow Epic Games Inc, Amazon.com Inc and other firms to integrate their app stores into the technology giant's marketplace, giving more options to third-party developers

Microsoft CEO says failed TikTok deal 'strangest thing I've worked on'

Microsoft in August 2020 began talks on the proposed acquisition but the deal collapsed by September.

Microsoft launches Surface Duo 2 with better performance, cameras

Tech giant Microsoft has launched its second folding smartphone -- the Surface Duo 2 along with the next-generation Surface devices

Microsoft and Honor sign partnership to develop new AI, devices

Honor and Microsoft have announced an expansion of an ongoing partnership , under which they will collaborate on Microsoft cloud adoption, personal and mobile computing, as well as other technologies.

Microsoft plans $60-billion buyback; Brad Smith appointed vice chair

The company's recent resurgence has given it a market value north of $2.2 trillion, making it the second-most valuable publicly traded company after a 35% rise in its shares over 2021

Infosys, Microsoft ink multi-year deal with power distributor Ausgrid

This is to accelerate the cloud transformation of the largest electricity distributor on Australia's east coast.

Microsoft, OYO in alliance to co-develop travel, hospitality products

Microsoft and hospitality firm OYO have entered a multi-year strategic alliance to co-develop next-gen travel and hospitality products and technologies, the companies said on Thursday. "OYO will adopt Microsoft Azure as a key enabler to drive cloud-based innovations and reimagine the hospitality and travel tech industry. The solutions will be geared to benefit patrons who operate the small and medium hotel and home storefronts," the companies said in a joint statement. Microsoft has also made a strategic equity investment in OYO, it added. Earlier in August, in an RoC filing, OYO had said that Microsoft Corporation has invested nearly USD 5 million (about Rs 37 crore) in OYO through the issuance of equity shares and compulsory convertible cumulative preference shares on a private placement basis. "We are excited to join hands with Microsoft in our constant endeavor to improve business opportunities for the small and independent hotel and homeowners, and to redefine experiences for

Google, Facebook, Microsoft top EU lobbying spending, shows study

Such efforts should be a wake-up call to EU policymakers to further beef up the draft laws and lobbying rules, the study by campaign groups Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl warned.

Researchers, cyber agency urge action by Microsoft cloud database users

Researchers who discovered a massive flaw in the main databases stored in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform urged all users to change their digital access keys, not just the 3,300 it notified this week

Microsoft discontinuing Office apps for Chromebook users

Microsoft is reportedly discontinuing support for Office, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook, for Chromebook users starting from September 18.

Microsoft fixes cloud computing platform vulnerability after warning

Microsoft says it has fixed a flaw in its cloud computing platform that could have enabled hackers to take over a cloud-based database product used by many big companies.

Billionaire-backed stock picker says tech bubble talk is for boomers

Blue Whale's top holdings are more dominated by brands that have become household names over the past two decades, including Google parent Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Google, Microsoft pledge billions in cybersecurity investments

The Biden administration has been urging the private sector to do its part to strengthen cybersecurity defences against those increasingly sophisticated attacks

Tech firms promise Joe Biden billions of dollars to bolster cybersecurity

Tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have promised US President Joe Biden to help him improve cybersecurity infrastructure in the wake of several high-profile hacking cases